Thursday, January 7, 2010

White House reaches out to Blumenthal, offers help: Capitol Watch


Posted by Frank Smith at 7.1.10

4 comments:

independent voter said...

,........based on a set of explicit criteria—such as encroachment on the powers of other branches of government, meddling in the affairs of other states or federal agencies, encouragement of
judicial activism and frivolous lawsuits, favoritism towards campaign contributors ethical breaches, and failure to provide representation to state agencies or to provide legal advice" Blumenthal was ranked as "the[ 41] nation's worst state attorney general"[ 41] by Hans Bader, the nation's worst state attorney general" by Hans Bader, the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute's Counsel for Specia Projects

January 7, 2010 at 5:46 PM
Anonymous said...

Conservative business interests accuse Blumenthal of political showmanship, of using flimsy legal theories to impose creative regulatory regimes on politically unpopular industries. They complain that he uses the courts to usurp the legislature's constitutional authority to regulate business.

"When you have an AG who is out there grandstanding, more interested in his own political advancement or generating headlines or sort of extracting a pound of flesh that he believes will give him some sort of political advantage, you really don't have the rule of law anymore," said James Copland, director of the center for legal policy at the Manhattan Institute, a New York think tank.

January 7, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Anonymous said...

The only groups I have ever witnessed Blumenthal fighting for are unions--especially those that are entrenched with ACORN.

As Glenn Beck called Blumenthal when Blumenthal was joining the Working Families Party in demonizing the bonuses paid to AIG employees last year:

"The defender of the rule of thumb"

Because when Blumenthal appeared as a guest on Beck's TV show, Blumenthal repeatedly avoided answering Beck's question about what law the bonuses, which were required under the employee contracts, was in violation of.

After Beck repeatedly pushed Blumenthal, Blumenthal finally said something to the effect of "as a rule of thumb" you don't want public money going for such bonuses, or some nonsense like that, so Beck then kept calling Blumenthal the defender of the "rule of thumb" instead of the "rule of law."

I believe if these huge bonuses were paid to members of unions, especially those affiliated with ACORN, Blumenthal would have no doubt celebrated them, instead of demonizing the employees.

Apparently the simple answer for the AIG employees would have been for them all to join SEIU?

January 8, 2010 at 2:12 AM
Anonymous said...

I'm surprised our attorney general didn't rank 50th in the nation.

We were 50th most unhappy state in the union, mainly because these liberals are never happy. All they do is whine and complain about everything!

January 8, 2010 at 3:13 AM

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